Alot of of the people in the small Missouri town of Ferguson want justice for Michael Brown, the 18 year old man that was shot and killed by a police officer. This rush to judgement is exactly what is wrong with the justice system.
There is a big difference between justice and the truth. Once the grand jury winds down sometime over the next weeks, we, as the public, will be privvy to the facts and crime scene evidence presented by police. It will be with this evidence and facts that we will be able to find out exactly what happened that tragic day.
I trust in the justice system because it works. In this case if it comes out that the police officer did indeed gun the teen down in cold blood, then he should be indicted and prosecuted.
However, I believe that even if the evidence shows that it was a good shooting, common police terminology for justifiable use of force, then I fully expect the grand jury to indict the officer only to calm the tension in the community. Indiciting the officer to calm the people down, fully confident he will be exhonerated at trial, could be walking a slippery slope.
If we indict police officers just to calm down protests then we are, in essence, negotiating with terrorists. They are using peaceful, yet sometimes violent protests, to directly impact criminal proceedings to their benefit or satisfaction.
If we start here, where will it end? Will we start indicting everyone that falls under protest? Of course not. I know more than 50% of Americans protest and complain against President Obama’s misuse of Executive Powers. There is no indictment there. Millions around the world protest and complain against the Greek economic collpase caused by the misappropriation of funds by the European Union. Still no indictment there.
No, I think this will only stop once there has been war declared on the American people by its own government. This war isn’t white and black. It isn’t even Muslim and Christian. It is a war between the haves and the have nots. Something is coming and it is coming soon. This is just the beginning.
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Gun Control Laws
This morning evil visited Conneticut and brought tragedy with it. More than a dozen children woke up, grabbed their backpacks, hopped on the bus to their elementary school, and were dead before lunch.
The shooting spree lasted less than 10 minutes, but that was long enough to leave multiple families childless. We are heartbroken, yes, all of us, but in the wake of tragedy comes an opportunity.
We have the opportunity now to discuss stricter gun laws. I have heard people say now is not the time to discuss the incident at Sandy Hook Elementary School being a precedent for gun laws. I disagree, because ever since Columbine, it should be all we talked about until it changed something.
If the teachers had been allowed to carry a concealed weapon on the premises this could have ended better. I know some of you are weary of the teachers carrying a handgun would be more volatile, but think about it, it’s never the teachers that shoot up the school, it is always a student or disgruntled former student.
Jose Luis Nunez had a handgun in order to protect his son. The 4 year-old accidentally shot himself in the face with it in Houston on Tuesday. Joseph V. Loughrey had one for the same reason, and his 7-year-old son, Craig, died on
Saturday outside of Pittsburgh when that handgun accidentally went off while the boy was getting into his safety seat in front of a gun store.
And that was just this week. The same week that the NRA proudly tweeted it had reached 1.7 million “likes” on Facebook.
We cherish individuality in America. We see raising children as no one else’s business, and we have never managed to band together as a “parenting” bloc. It is
time. Guns are a parenting issue and we need to control them in the name of the children who died this morning. Even more, we need to do it in the name of their mothers and fathers.
So cry today. Comfort your kids. Curse, and pray. Then pick up the phone, a pen, a keyboard, or your checkbook and make your demands heard for stricter gun laws. All day and every day. But most especially, today.
Sad Day in Conneticut
In an emotional response to the horrific school shooting in Newtown,
Connecticut, President Obama said
today, “As a country, we have been
through this too many times.”
“Whether it’s an elementary school in Newtown, a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora…these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods and these children are our children,” he continued, appearing to choke up at times. “We’re going to have
to come together to take meaningful
action… regardless of the politics.”
Around 9:30 a.m. this morning, a man armed with at least two guns opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The shooting left 27 people dead, including at least 18 children ages five to 10 years old. The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Ryan Lanza, is now dead. The motive for the shootings is still unclear, but Lanza’s mother was a teacher at the school.
Most of the shootings were in her
classroom, and Lanza’s mother was
among the dead. Mr. Obama was first notified of the shooting at 10:30 a.m. by Homeland Security Adviser John Brennan.
The president called Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, the governor’s office said today, to express his condolences and pledge whatever resources the federal government can bring to bear to assist the families and the investigation.
According to the White House, the
president also spoke with FBI Director Robert Mueller about the incident, and the FBI providing support to state and local police.
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